Crisis

CADTM-Pakistan strategize campaign for foreign debt cancellation

23 August 2010 - by Abdul Khaliq

To discuss debt crisis in the backdrop of the severe humanitarian and economic crisis, caused by the on-going devastating floods in Pakistan, CADTM-Pakistan organized a meeting of the group members and various representatives of civil society (...)
USA. Heads, they win and the people lose. Tails... they continue winning and the people paying.

9 November 2009 - by Daniel Munevar

During recent weeks the press has abounded with comments on the anniversary of the major events of the financial crisis of 2008. Among those significant events that have attracted more press coverage are the fall of Lehman Brothers coupled with (...)
United-States : Where is the help for the workers?

2 October 2009 - by Daniel Munevar

At the onset of the worst economic crisis in the global economy since the Great Depression, employment losses are starting to mount at a dramatic pace. According to the ILO (International Labour Organization) more than 50 million workers are (...)
Conference at the Socialism 2009 organized by the Center for Economic and Social Change, Chicago, July 20^th 2009.

The impact of the world crisis in Latin America

4 August 2009 - by Claudio Katz

Thank you for this invitation and congratulations for this conference In my opinion, the effect of the world crisis in Latin America pose different types of discussion. The immediate economic effect, the political effect and the social measures (...)
Debt and poverty

11 January 2009 - by Eric Toussaint

Download the presentation of Eric Toussaint on Debt and poverty in Katmandou for a South Asian CADTM network meeting.
Why a World Food Crisis?

23 September 2008 - by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet

Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights stipulates that “everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and (...)
“The Party is Over”; Origin and Causes of the Housing Crisis

17 June 2008 - by Arturo Guillén R.

This paper’s aim is to analyze the origins and causes of the housing crisis that began emerging in the U.S. economy in early 2007, becoming a grave financial crisis by August. In the second part, I will examine the background to the crisis: the (...)
Capitalism in an Apocalyptic Mood

22 May 2008 - by Walden Bello

An apocalyptic mood has seized the highest levels of global capital as the global financial system continues to implode. This implosion is but the latest financial crisis to wrack global capitalism. Financial crises are inevitable since (...)
Bankers saved, human rights sacrificed

16 April 2008 - by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet

The randomness of numbers sometimes throws up some striking coincidences. Behind the shadow plays conjured up by the zealous servants of neoliberal globalisation, the brutal backstage reality revealed itself this week, through the publication of (...)
Food Price Crisis Draws Attention at IMF/World Bank Meetings

15 April 2008 - by Soren Ambrose

It was easy to predict that the global credit crisis would be a major concern at the IMF/World Bank spring meetings. But while that was true, it was clearly the case that the heads of the two institutions were intent on focusing attention on (...)
The Proof Is in: Third-World Debt Is Erasable

27 March 2008 - by Eric Toussaint, Damien Millet

Published in Le Monde and www.truthout.org Since August 2007, North American and European banks have been experiencing a very severe crisis, now poised to spread to the entire neo-liberal free-market system as a whole. The actual sum of asset (...)
Differences between 1982 and 2007-2008 crisis

12 January 2008 - by Eric Toussaint

In 1982, the external public debt crisis of the developing countries was triggered by the combined effects of the rise in interest rates imposed by the United States two years earlier, and the fall in prices of raw materials, particularly oil. (...)